Publication details: Cresset Press, n.d. [circa1935,]
Rare Book
Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Kate, Mervyn Lagden, Xmas 1935'.A scarce book, from a series that included Graham Greene's 'The Basement Room' and Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'More Joy in Heaven' Hilda Mervyn Lagden attended St Hugh's College, Oxford in the early 1920s; her published output consists of the present work and a slim collection of poems concerning the Cotswolds, circa 1950 - this volume begins with a poem, 'Cotswold Rain', and the stories concern rural life there.
FIRST EDITION, pp. ix, 191, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and worn at foot, slight lean to spine and cloth darkened to extremities, dustjacket chipped, nicked and creased, very good
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